Just as Xia Xue was busy running the acquisition of Hannah Barbara Animation Company, Xia Tian also got good news.

After nearly a year of hard research and development, Genius Laboratory finally launched a brand new operating system.

Although this operating system is not as good as Microsoft's Windows, Apple's Mac-OS has developed a graphical user interface, and it is currently just a command line interface, but it already has a complete kernel.

It can realize many basic functions, such as storing and reading files, managing and configuring memory, determining system resource supply and demand, controlling input and output devices, etc.

Xia Tian was also very happy to learn that the new system was finally developed successfully.

To be honest, he originally thought that the operating system could be developed earlier.

You should know that Linus Torvaz, the father of Linux in his previous life, developed the Linux kernel alone in just one summer vacation.

Unexpectedly, more than 30 top computer engineers from Genius Laboratory actually took nearly a year to complete this work.

It seems that the gap between geniuses and talents in the computer world is really outrageous. Many jobs cannot be accomplished simply by relying on human-sea tactics.

But it is timely to complete it now.

Microsoft's Windows operating system has not yet unified the world, and they still have the opportunity to seize part of the market before Microsoft becomes a super monster.

What Xiatian wants to win the most is the mainland market.

In his previous life, the mainland was the world's largest computer consumer, with more than 300 million units produced and sold each year.

But behind the seemingly prosperous market, there are actually great hidden worries.

Mainland computers can hardly be independent from CPU to motherboard, from memory to hard disk, from operating system to application software, and all must be imported from abroad.

In other words, the mainland is just a big assembler, and the profit is only hard-earned. The majority of computer profits have been made away by foreign companies.

As a Chinese citizen, Xia Tian was certainly unhappy about this. However, in his previous life, others said slight words, and even if they were unhappy, they were unable to turn the overall situation around.

But now it's different. He already has enough strength to turn the tide.

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Now, he has formed Tianxia Technology and established his own computer company.

Not only did it develop its own operating system, acquire the British arm chip company, but it also invested in TSMC...

In addition, he also acquired two memory manufacturers, Kingston and SanDisk, and a motherboard manufacturer in Gigabyte, and invested in Ati, the graphics card manufacturer, Cisco, Zhongxing and other network communication equipment manufacturers, and also acquired many shares in application software manufacturers such as Oracle, Adobe, and Symantec...

Now he has the ability to develop his own computer, from CPU to motherboard, from memory to hard disk, from operating system to application software, he can basically achieve independent realization.

Although the performance is a bit weaker than Wintel (Microsoft + Intel) and Apple's Macintosh computers and have relatively single functions, I believe it can already cope with basic operations. After all, computers are mainly used for office work, and the requirements for performance and applications are not too high.

And the most important thing is that since computer research and development is basically independent, more refined control can be achieved in terms of cost, and price wars with foreign computers and compete for the market.

You should know that not many people pursue high configurations, nor do many people pursue high performance.

Except for computer enthusiasts, most people are not sensitive to computer configurations. As long as they can meet their daily needs, they don’t care about anything else. In this case, cheap and easy-to-use computers will undoubtedly be their first choice.

In summer, Bainaohui computers can be produced, because they basically achieve independent realization, so the cost can be very low. At that time, they will win with their price advantage and win the mainland market.

Once he takes over the mainland market, he can become a prince and dominate the country at the most. If possible, he can even use the mainland as a base to advance to the global computer market.

The Mainland has little influence on the global scale now, because its economy is relatively backward and it is too busy to take care of itself, let alone take care of others. But twenty or thirty years later, when the Mainland becomes the world's second largest economy, its influence will be incomparable. At that time, its computer can be promoted to the world as China expands its global influence.

Just like Xiaomi's mobile phone in his previous life, he used the mainland as the base camp and made his business all over the world.

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Of course, this is just an idea.

At present, the most important thing is to promote this operating system.

Even if an operating system is done well, it will be useless without the market.

To gain market recognition, one is that the system must be excellent enough, and the other is that it must have sufficient applications as support.

The reason why Microsoft's empire's hegemony is unshakable is that many software only support Windows. Many of these software are commercial application software, and it is difficult to port to other operating systems, so people have to use Windows systems.

It is impossible to develop applications for operating systems by one person alone. Because no matter how powerful a computer genius is, he cannot be omniscient and omnipotent, and cannot develop all applications.

Moreover, developing and applying is not a matter of a day or a night. It requires continuous investment of funds and energy, and even smaller companies are difficult to support.

Fortunately, Xia Tian was prepared, so he decided to turn this system into a shared free and open source operating system.

Every programmer, every company can use it for free and can develop application software for it without any licensing fees.

This is very different from other operating systems. Whether it is Microsoft or Apple, their operating systems are charged.

Microsoft's Windows 3.0 is priced at $149, and although Apple's Mac-OS is not sold to the public, its price is also integrated into the Macintosh computer, which is also not cheap.

In addition, the unix operating system is not cheap, and it also requires payment of authorization fees. At the beginning, Linus Torvaz wanted to develop an operating system because he could not afford the unix licensing fees.

In addition to purchasing the operating system, you also need to pay a license fee to develop application software for it. Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc. all make a lot of money with the license fee.

Operating systems and licensing fees are naturally nothing for large companies like ibm, Oracle, and Facebook, and can afford it. But for some small companies, scientific research institutions, and computer enthusiasts, the money is not so easy to be paid.

Europe and the United States pay great attention to copyright. Once it is discovered that someone uses pirated copies, it will be fined at the least, and even sentenced at the worst. Once the credit stain is left, it will greatly affect life, so not many people dare to take risks.

Now that the operating system is shared for free in the summer, these small companies, programmers, and scientific research institutions can be used for free.

The software they developed can just enrich the application of the operating system and win more market for it. So this is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

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Summer then contributed this operating system to the world-renowned open source software community gnu program.
Chapter completed!